topic Re: Working with date informat yymmdd8. in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Working-with-date-informat-yymmdd8/m-p/157931#M41341 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>I will also add that there is <STRONG>no <SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">date variable</SPAN></STRONG> in SAS. You have either numeric (which can be formatted as dates) or character variables.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 06 Nov 2014 17:04:43 GMT Loko 2014-11-06T17:04:43Z Working with date informat yymmdd8. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Working-with-date-informat-yymmdd8/m-p/157928#M41338 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am using a SAS dataset which has a date variable with:</P><P></P><P>Format: MMDDYY10.</P><P>Informat: YYMMDD8.</P><P></P><P>I need to select cases between 2 particular dates. I have tried reformatting the dates, using the GE LE functions with 'yymmdd'D and a lot of other techniques. But nothing seems to work. Please help. </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:23:41 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Working-with-date-informat-yymmdd8/m-p/157928#M41338 sanketshah07 2014-11-05T17:23:41Z Re: Working with date informat yymmdd8. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Working-with-date-informat-yymmdd8/m-p/157929#M41339 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>All date literals are in the form ddMonYY or ddMonYYYY. '13JUN2014'D for example. The format of the variable has nothing to do with selecting values.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:50:24 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Working-with-date-informat-yymmdd8/m-p/157929#M41339 ballardw 2014-11-05T17:50:24Z Re: Working with date informat yymmdd8. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Working-with-date-informat-yymmdd8/m-p/157930#M41340 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you. I was able to solve the problem. I appreciate your help.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:37:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Working-with-date-informat-yymmdd8/m-p/157930#M41340 sanketshah07 2014-11-06T15:37:19Z Re: Working with date informat yymmdd8. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Working-with-date-informat-yymmdd8/m-p/157931#M41341 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>I will also add that there is <STRONG>no <SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">date variable</SPAN></STRONG> in SAS. You have either numeric (which can be formatted as dates) or character variables.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 06 Nov 2014 17:04:43 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Working-with-date-informat-yymmdd8/m-p/157931#M41341 Loko 2014-11-06T17:04:43Z